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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1. 



piMce here for several years. Well, to tell the 

 truth about it. I am glad that they scarcely 

 ever reach so high a price. What would poor 

 hard-working people do who live in the city, 

 who can hardly affoi'd to pay ten. cents per doz- 

 en '? It is with the poultry business as with 

 any other — all have their bright and their dark 

 side; so we must try again and be thankful for 

 what we do have. Mhs. Edw. Smith. 



Carpenter, 111.. Oct. 31. 



[My good friend, I well know the difiticulties 

 inkeepiug poultry successfully: and may be. 

 if I had a chance to try it. I should have as 

 many mishaps as you do — at least, to start 

 with. But do you not know that we meet sim- 

 ilar difficulties in all rural industries — in fact. 

 In almost eveiy industry in life ? But men and 

 women do succeed in overcoming just such dif- 

 ficulties. We have fought down the potato- 

 bugs, and pretty nearly killed them out. Fruit- 

 growers have mastered the codling moth, and 

 our experiment stations have just solved the 

 problem in regard to scabby apples. W. I. 



Now, my good friend, whenever prices come up 

 to a point where fai'ming (iocs' pay, the poor 

 must pay more for these very things that 

 farmers produce. So you see that what is some- 

 body's else loss is another's gain, and therefore 

 affairs are not in such a very bad state after all. 

 And. by the way. to get right down to it, this is 

 a pretty good country; or to go a little further, 

 a pretty good world to live in. In other words, 

 is it not true that God knows best what is for 

 our greatest good and highest happiness ?] 



A I. R. 



THE POSSIBILITIES IN THE GARDENING 

 LINE IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. 



A KEI'OKT- FROM ONE OF OUR BEE-KEEPING 

 FRIENDS. 



Friend Root: — Knowing that you are inter- 

 ested in fine vegetables I send you a photo of 

 two heads of lettuce, raised from seed bought 

 of you. The one on the left side is New York; 

 the other is Grand Rapids. The New York 



TWO HEADS OF LETTrrE. NEW YORK AND GR.\ND RAIMDS. RAISED IN AVASHINGTON. 



Chamberlain, of whom I have told you, has, 

 even this present season, trees whos(> limbs are 

 breaking down with the most beautiful, perfect, 

 fair, round apples I ever saw. Nobody else has 

 any within miles — or. at least, none of any ac- 

 count. At the present time, in almost every 

 neighborhood you can find people who have 

 mastered the obstacles, and are making a suc- 

 cess with poultry, bees, small trulls, api)les — 

 yes, and even corn, j)otatoes, and wheat. \Vhere 

 then; is a will tliei'e is a way. If it wcivi not fur 

 these drawbacks wf should never be, abh; to gel 

 th<^ l)rices we do. You speak about |)oor haid- 

 working people not l)eing able to have eggs 

 when they are 'J") cents a dozen. Well, then I 

 suppose they must go without them. You have 

 heard the lamcmt that has come up so fre- 

 quently of late, that " farming does not pay." 



weighed 3 lbs. 4 oz.; the other measured 18 

 inches across as it stood in the garden, and 

 weighed 1)4 lbs., and was a beautiful plant. I 

 sold §54.5 worth of the New York. I'aised on five 

 rods of land: and have .^56 Mammoth King 

 onions growing on the same ground. Some of 

 them measui'e eleven inches ai'ound the bulb. 

 I owe to Gleanings a small hint on transplant- 

 ing that I put to practical use. I do not know 

 wliat the possibilities of tliis country may be. 

 I have a phnio of eleven Sluupless strawberiies 

 that filled a common b(>rry-box full, and the 

 largest bei'i'y measur<'d nine inches ai'ound. I 

 do uot wish to boom the countiy, for it has al- 

 ready been dowc quite sufficiently. Seeds bought 

 of you hav(^ given the very best satisfaction. 

 Albert INIcCay. 

 Olympia, Wash.. July 17. 



